Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to seek and to lose, to keep and to cast away. Gaining and letting go each have their appointed place in life.

Cross-references · 20

• Phil 3:7–8However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
• Luke 9:24–25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
• Mark 8:35–37For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
• Matt 16:25–26For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
• Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
• Heb 10:34–35For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
• Mark 10:28–30Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Eccl 11:1Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• 2 Kgs 5:26He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
• Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
• Deut 8:17–18and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
• Gen 31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
• Exod 12:35–36The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
• Gen 30:30–43For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
• 2 Kgs 7:15They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
• Jonah 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
• Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
• Acts 27:38When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
• 2 Kgs 8:9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

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